SKOPE is a research centre based at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. The centre is multi-disciplinary with staff and associates from most branches of the social sciences. We examine the links between the acquisition and use of skills and knowledge, product market strategies and performance.

Our research

The DuVE suite of projects,

Developing and Understanding Vocational Excellence (DuVE) is a suite of six research projects focusing on groups of individuals involved in developing vocational excellence through skills competitions. By understanding the process of learning and training, and the environments in which this happens, we can begin to understand the good practice occurring, and the potential it has to feed back into the VET system more generally.